Remembering your childhood disappointments

I was a bad kid but could be good if motivated. In sixth grade our teacher had a "good student" contest, you got a star every time she saw you behaving or basically being good. The prize for the top two kids was a ride in her brother's airplane, and oh man I wanted that! I started being a model student and was well ahead of all the other kids but then was accused of cheating by taking other kids stars and moving them to my name. I didn't cheat, don't know who said I did, but after that no matter how well I behaved the teacher wouldn't give me a star, and I fell out of contention for the plane ride.

That was a bitter life lesson for me, being a trouble maker seemed to be the only way anyone would ever see me. I probably deserved the lable, but it hurt me that being my best still wasn't good enough.

In the end the winners didn't get the plane ride but the teacher took them swimming at a park
 

C50 said:
I was a bad kid but could be good if motivated. In sixth grade our teacher had a "good student" contest, you got a star every time she saw you behaving or basically being good. The prize for the top two kids was a ride in her brother's airplane, and oh man I wanted that! I started being a model student and was well ahead of all the other kids but then was accused of cheating by taking other kids stars and moving them to my name. I didn't cheat, don't know who said I did, but after that no matter how well I behaved the teacher wouldn't give me a star, and I fell out of contention for the plane ride.

That was a bitter life lesson for me, being a trouble maker seemed to be the only way anyone would ever see me. I probably deserved the lable, but it hurt me that being my best still wasn't good enough.

In the end the winners didn't get the plane ride but the teacher took them swimming at a park
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I don't know if you're the same as me... but I was accused of something ..like you.. as a child that I absolutely did not do... and due to that to this day... nothing makes me more angry than being unjustly accused of something... what about you ?
 
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hollydolly said:
HR... with all due respect you do you, and let others do theirs...

This thread proves that some people need to get things out of their system... ..and I shouldn't have to justify a reason for it... if you don't like the subject , please move on... (y)
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Of course! It's not that I don't like the subject. I get it, it's painful, and I am glad you started it.
I never required justification from anyone. And I shouldn't have to justify the way I deal with it either.
 

hearlady said:
Of course! It's not that I don't like the subject. I get it, it's painful, and I am glad you started it.
I never required justification from anyone. And I shouldn't have to justify the way I deal with it either.
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No you shouldn't... but then this is a thread for people who want to talk about their disappointments, and as you didn't want to talk about yours..why did you feel it was yourr right to pour water on other people's?..I said it already I'll say it again.. if you don't have anything to add to a topic then go somewhere else, and stop ruining it for other people..
 
Thankfully, my disappointment was not truly life changing. But I do remember it. In the mid 1950s, I was 7 and Davey Crocket was in the movies and on TV. If you were a kid, you had to have a coonskin hat. I just could not go on living without a coonskin hat. I bugged and bugged my parents to get a coonskin hat. I never got a coonskin hat. When I read the thread's "childhood disappointments", and after 70+ years, not getting a coonskin hat popped right into my head.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Thankfully, my disappointment was not truly life changing. But I do remember it. In the mid 1950s, I was 7 and Davey Crocket was in the movies and on TV. If you were a kid, you had to have a coonskin hat. I just could not go on living without a coonskin hat. I bugged and bugged my parents to get a coonskin hat. I never got a coonskin hat. When I read the thread's "childhood disappointments", and after 70+ years, not getting a coonskin hat popped right into my head.
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see... that may be amusing to some. but it just shows how these things in our formative years have a far reaching effect!
 
hollydolly said:
Can you remember your big disappointments as a child?

Something that was a huge let down and you still remember it to this day... sad,? funny?... surprising?.. share it here...

The first one that comes to mind for me, I was about 6 years old, had been invited to a children's birthday party at the neighbours house..
The birthday cake contained sixpences.. which was a huge amount in 1961 for a child to have.. only unbeknown to me the woman had added buttons as well... and all the children got a sixpence in their portion of cake....except me... , I still remember the disappointment to this day...
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That was really an unfair thing to do, it could only end with someone feeling disappointed. Shame on that woman.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Thankfully, my disappointment was not truly life changing. But I do remember it. In the mid 1950s, I was 7 and Davey Crocket was in the movies and on TV. If you were a kid, you had to have a coonskin hat. I just could not go on living without a coonskin hat. I bugged and bugged my parents to get a coonskin hat. I never got a coonskin hat. When I read the thread's "childhood disappointments", and after 70+ years, not getting a coonskin hat popped right into my head.
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It’s never too late, fuzz! 😉🤭😂

https://www.etsy.com/market/coonskin_caps
 
Jace said:
In elementary school, maybe 4th of 5th grade (don't remember exactly)
A Christmas gift 'exchange'...you pick a person 's name to give a gift and someone picks your name
And so it goes
Names are called.to the end

Except mine😰
Someone said...what about J. ( me)
Teacher asked who picked my name
(Still remember his name to this day)
Teacher took gift he got and gave it to me
Pack of pencils
Even now...
Dread gift exchanges to this day.
And..have been disappointed 😞
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What a terrible feeling of being left out.
 
hollydolly said:
I don't know if you're the same as me... but I was accused of something ..like you.. as a child that I absolutely did not do... and due to that to this day... nothing makes me more angry than being unjustly accused of something... what about you ?
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I'm very different as an adult than when I was young but the feeling of unworthiness still has a bit of a hold on me. I would say I feel more of a let down than angry when I am falsely accused.
 
Another thing I remember.

I had a neighbor who flew RC model airplanes out of his yard, I thought they were very cool. One day he tells me not to come over when he's flying because I was a jynx and he always crashed his plane when I showed up. I was probably six or seven, the jynx comment went right along with my dad telling me I broke everything I touched.
 
1) My parents were Christians but for reasons too long to go into, did not celebrate Christmas, and my friends didn't understand that, so I felt like an outsider growing up.

2) My mother gave me a photo of herself that had appeared in the newspaper some years before. It was a good likeness, and I was glad to have it. I had laid it on a living room table, and sometime later my father came in and told me I wasn't taking care of it properly, that I should frame it or something. I told him okay, but didn't act on it immediately. When he returned awhile later and saw that it was still on the table, he ripped it to pieces and told me that would teach me a lesson on what can happen when I was so careless with things of value.
 
When I was in the third grade a boy promised he would marry me when we grew up. He was so cute and we liked each other. However, he moved to Australia and of course gone out of my life. My teacher was in contact with him and just told me about what he wrote and of course not about me.
 
Another military brat and so also a perennial new kid but that didn’t phase me much. School was always a positive experience at least through the elementary years. At first I couldn’t think of any major disappointments but then I remembered the time my father had gone to buy tickets for us to go see pro wrestling which we enjoyed watching on television. Very rare opportunity as we were a big family and my father didn’t earn much. But he got into a car accident so it got cancelled.

Not a huge deal but disappointing at the time.
 
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